Where Do The Unprecedented Climate Records of a Melting World Come From?

Climate warnings from Antarctica and South America echo across the globe

Ricky Lanusse
The New Climate.

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Photo by Azzurra Visaggio on Unsplash

The entire Atlantic seaboard, along with Florida, San Francisco’s hills, and San Diego: all gone.

The Amazon Basin transformed into an Atlantic inlet, wiping out Buenos Aires, coastal Uruguay, and most of Paraguay.

Alexandria and Cairo swamped by the intruding Mediterranean.

London and Venice, remnants of history; The Netherlands and Denmark, now deep-sea diving locations.

Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains? A new island.

This apocalyptic world is the future we are heading toward if Antarctica, paired with the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), continues its record-setting fast-paced melting.

The Complexity of Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting

Recent reports from July 30th, 2023, reveal that Antarctica has lost a mass of ice the size of my country, Argentina, the 8th largest country in the world.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), holding the potential to cause a staggering 58 meters (190 feet) of global sea level rise (more than eight times that of the Greenland Ice Sheet), is experiencing…

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Ricky Lanusse
Ricky Lanusse

Written by Ricky Lanusse

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